Education_For_The_Handicapped

Education For The Handicapped Between the mid 1960s and 1975, state legislatures, the federal courts, and the U.S. Congress spelled out strong educational rights for children with disabilities. Forty-five state legislatures passed laws mandating, encouraging, and/or funding special education programs. Federal courts, interpreting the equal protection and due process guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ruled that schools could not discriminate on the basis of disability and that parents had due process rights related to their children's schooling (Martin, Martin & Terman, 1996). People who have advocated for students with disabilities have always tried to find separate funding for special education services. In advocating for students with disabilities, there has been a push toward grants instead of categorical programs. Greater inclusion of special education students in general education classrooms has raised concerns education, disabilities, children, federal, schools, public, act, special, secondary, grants, elementary, title, state, martin, congress, students, vi, services, provided, programs, law, handicapped, grant, first, esea, through, terman, states, related, program, ndea, improve, http//wwwedgov/pubs/osep95anlrpt/ch5a-1html, eha, direct